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Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and mentors.

Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Mentors – the follow up to the New York Times bestseller Recovery – describes the benefits of seeking and offering help.

"I have mentors in every area of my life, as a comic, a dad, a recovering drug addict, a spiritual being and as a man who believes that we, as individuals and the great globe itself, are works in progress and that through a chain of mentorship we can improve individually and globally, together . . . One of the unexpected advantages my drug addiction granted is that the process of recovery that I practise includes a mentorship tradition.

"I will encourage you to find mentors of your own and explain how you may better use the ones you already have. Furthermore, I will tell you about my experiences mentoring others and how invaluable that has been on my ongoing journey to self-acceptance and how it has helped me to transform from a bewildered and volatile vagabond to a (mostly) present and (usually) focussed husband and father."―Russell Brand

Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped describes the impact that a series of significant people have had on the author – from the wayward youths he tried to emulate growing up in Essex, through the first ex-junkie sage, to the people he turns to today to help him be a better father. It explores how we all – consciously and unconsciously – choose guides, mentors and heroes throughout our lives and examines the new perspectives they can bring.

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“[A] compact book with a huge heart. . . . [Mentors] is self-consciously a hero's journey, from lost youth to mentor and father . . . [with] many touching personal confessions and real . . . insights”
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"[Brand] shares stories of who he was and how he changed via the help of various mentors . . . [illuminating] his transformation from an angry, disillusioned person to the more well-rounded father and spiritual person he is today."
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Russell Brand is a comedian and an addict. He's been addicted to drugs, sex, fame, money and power. Even now as a father, more than fifteen years into recovery he still writes about himself in the third person and that can't be healthy. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Recovery. He still performs as a comic and is studying for an MA in Religion in Global Politics. He has two cats, two dogs, a wife, two daughters, ten chickens and sixty thousand bees in spite of being vegan curious. He is certain that the material world is an illusion but still keeps licking the walls of the hologram.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Henry Holt and Co. (April 9, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250226279
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250226273
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 5.38 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #186,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #1,291 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies
- #3,626 in Personal Transformation Self-Help

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Since rising to fame in 2003, Russell Brand has established himself as one of one of the world’s most celebrated stand-up comedians.

Aside from stand-up, Russell is also a phenomenally successful author, broadcaster, actor, podcaster, columnist, political commentator and mental health & drug rehabilitation activist.

He has 2 cats, a dog, a wife, a baby, 10 chickens and 60 thousand bees, in spite of being vegan curious.

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Kate Marin

This is Russell Brand- on serious recovery

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2023

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I really like Mr. Brand- & his take on recovery is solid & very, very Russell Brand dead honest.

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Kelly Schreiner

There is no one who shouldn't read this. Buy the book and give it away when you're finished.

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2019

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Read the acknowledgements first. There is so much profound gratitude sewn into this entire project, it nearly bleeds off of the page into your skin. This great work is very evidently the product of one deep spiritual transformation. Captivating and enlightening, Russell uses his genius and whimsical way with words to shape stories that move through you as if you've seen the same things once before. I ventured into this book for guidance as I continue my own spiritual journey, putting the title of the book to work for me every step of the way. It is exhilarating to be affirmed along the path to enlightenment by someone willing to show the most reduced version of himself to anyone willing to look, that it might be just the right amount of camaraderie to plant a seed of understanding in just about anyone. Russell takes us on a trip from the despair of wretched misalignment and teaches us to open our hearts and our minds to recognizing the moment an important lesson is to be taught. How to go from being a miserable irreverent narcissist to an unconditionally loving partner, father and mentor? Go inward. What a brilliant contribution to our modern world, this book. Thank you, Mr. Brand for bringing these vast and deeply intricate musings to the collective conscious. We all very much benefit from your work. Many thanks, indeed.

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Jean Paul

life changing, Russell is a born mentor, and a man with many gifts

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2019

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I've been following Russel since i was a confused teenager reading the my booky wook series. It immensely helped me as a confused teenager with a dad that wasn't around. Russell continues to write books that touch people's lives he has a sense of honesty and geniuses that is seductive and contagious. Russel has also been there for me during my own path with recovery, he has been a mentor to me my whole life i feel like. I always buy his books because they always deliver, Russel is incredibly intelligent, a borderline genius that I feel like gets unnoticed. Russel fights for the ones who chose to escape their trauma pain suffering abuse and then got trapped in a whole another merry go round aka the revolving door. Without Russell I wouldn't be alive today to write this review. I just ordered two copies and received mine today, I cant keep it down. Russell Brand was born and blessed with many many gifts from God. He uses them wisely, and helps young men like me see the light when no one else is there to show you the way. Russell puts his heart in trying to help anyone without judgement and it shows. A modern day Jesus if you ask me
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Lambchops

Loved it!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2022

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Russell is deep, transparent and has obviously done the inside work...I loved listening to his funny and profound realizations...so authentic, Russell shares so many truths that we don't understand until we go inside... Our journey is ours and ours alone...cherish yourself and grow from this book or maybe you have done your work and will simply just enjoy nodding your head yes, yes, yes :) Loved it!!

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Low Man's Lyric

Good, short read and call to action

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2021

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I always enjoy Russell Brand material and specifically his work around sobriety. This isn't Recovery but it is a good, short read about many of his mentors and the value of mentors. It doesn't go into as much depth on how once should/could become a mentor as I had hoped but worth the read.

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fallyn

Worth a listen for his entertaining insight to better ourselves.

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019

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Russell Brand use to be someone that I would not have given the time of day for. Not a very good actor, and way too high of an egotistical ass to ever like. Then I saw a few of his videos posted to Twitter. Somewhere on his journey to self discovery and recovery, he realized these things for himself and now he seems to be a much different human. I enjoy listening to this. I am not a recovering addict, but he has some get insight to better ourselves that we can all learn from in this.

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Matthew Fuller

Id recommend this book to someone in recovery

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2020

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This book was a quick read and had some interesting points. Its pretty much a self help book. I only read it because I liked get him to the Greek and forgetting Sarah Marshall.
He had some great ideas and incite but it doesn't resonate with me personally.
I learned some things as I do with all books, but it missed the mark for me.
He is a good writer and I enjoyed his use of words

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DigitalZen

Compliments "Recovery"

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2019

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I'd give any of Brand's books a "5" were it not for his gratuitous use of profanity: it's great for emphasis, but italics work too. Used too much, the "f-word" loses its power. As to insight, etc., definitely five stars.

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Easy read, a lot of gentle wisdom, very funny but poignant. I loved it.

K. G. A. Alavi

To the mentors out there

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2019

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A good book. Don't judge this book by its size, this book. This book contains some condensed in some cases summarised versions of his book Recovery, but it is not the same book.

This is part Russell's thank you to people who have mentored him, and mainly the importance of mentoring and finding the correct mentor. He goes through the characteristics needed, as well as what he learned and then passed on to people he has mentored.

Their is a great chapter on his experience of parenthood, as well as dealing with every parents worst nightmare.

If you are looking for a quick easy read this is not the correct book. It is deep in some places, light hearted in others. Unlike in Revolution where Brand spoke of a revolution to come, but himself was not sure where he was not sure which side he would be classed on when it did come, he know exactly where he stands on the topic of mentoring. How important it is, what people should look for, and it works. He uses himself as an example to illustrate what mentoring has done for him and allowed him to do for others. Like a good teacher, a good mentor not only guides, but never stops learning from those he is helping.

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Louise Rigg

How to help and be helped - helpful to everyone!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2019

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How to help and be helped This is probably my favourite book by Brand to date. Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Brand owns that he has mentors in every area of his life; as a comic, dad, recovering drug addict and spiritual being, some of whom were chosen consciously, others not. The point of the book, he wrote, is "to understand this process [of mentorship] and to improve it". Brand has really captured the reality of why we need mentors and shares a honest view of some of his. I’ve had a workplace/professional mentor for the last few years or so and each person has helped me immensely in my career, but as that chapter (9-5 office job) closes, this book has opened my eyes to the possibility of how much I can learn from people who motivate, encourage and inspire me. Whether that’s finding a mentor(s) in person, in an area of my life that interests me or reading books and admiring people from afar. Mentorship is vital. As well as getting the help, to then be in a position to help others is priceless. As a friend and mentor of mine once told me, “if you can’t pay it back, pay it forward”. Compact and thoughtful. You’d be hard pressed not to find a few pearls of wisdom or thought provoking ideas. Also, his podcasts, #UnderTheSkin are epic. Have a listen, if you like his work. Have a listen if you definitely don’t! You might surprise yourself.

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Life Changing

Reviewed in Germany on May 5, 2020

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Russell Brand's Mentors is truly a life changing book. I particularly liked his views on relationships and what matters in life. It's all about perspective and dealing with healthy feelings versus unhealthy feelings. The book gives the advice of finding mentors; generally just consulting people who seem to have their act together in an aspect where one would like to see improvement for oneself or areas of one's life where one sees struggle. Often Brand will come back to the 12 step programme which he covers in more depth in "Recovery" his other book. It seems addiction recovery provided Brand with a framework beyond his struggles which he suggests serves as a blueprint, in my reading, for a fuller life. What I myself personally liked was his coverage of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu which he assigns a more spiritual meaning apart from the exercise and sport. This also allows him to contemplate certain aspects of masculinity. Overall, an enjoyable read which shines the most for its humour, as one would expect from a book written by Russell Brand.

Adam

It just makes sense. Guys a legend

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2019

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I almost cancelled this order on the basis that it is quite obvious that we need mentors in every area of our lives in order to excel...do we though? I only realised my need for mentors in my 30s after my teacher/mentor told me to seek some out.
The book ended up being pretty useful and funny. I have underlined and scribbled on many of the pages.
I love that he lets us in and we see a real person who is vulnerable and flawed just like so many of us. Mainly it is nice to know that is possible to overcome addictions and learn if you are willing to put your ego to one side and put the work in.
I find Russel very difficult to watch. He has way too much energy for me but I LOVE reading his work and listening to his podcast. He is articulate. He is humble. He is very accepting and non judgemental. He is very open minded.
Interestingly I once saw Russel Brand many many years ago. When he was a different person altogether. Around the same time I brought a magazine that had a free bag with it that read 'Russel and I wear the same brand'. At the time I disliked him so didn't use it. I flaunt it now.

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